Colca Canyon is deepest canyon in the world , Peru.It is most beautiful, and safer, after the rains cease.

The Colca Valley is a colorful Andean valley with towns founded in Spanish Colonial times and formerly inhabited by the Collaguas and the Cabanas.
Colca Canyon is deepest canyon in the world , Peru

Colca Canyon is a canyon of the Colca River, in the Andes mountain range, in southern Peru. It is located about 100 miles (160 kilometers) northwest of Arequipa. It is more than twice as deep as the Grand Canyon in the United States 4,160 m.The Colca River starts high in the Andes at Condorama Crucero Alto and changes its name to Majes, and then to Camana before reaching the Pacific Ocean.The Colca Valley is a colorful Andean valley with towns founded in Spanish Colonial times and formerly inhabited by the Collaguas and the Cabanas.


This canyon is reportedly the deepest in the world, thought to be twice as deep as the Grand Canyon in the USA.
The river and valley were well-known to the Incas and their predecessors, and the Spaniards laid out townships along the valley, no doubt planning to use Rio Colca valley as the route to Cuzco and other Andean locations. They built churches along the way, notably the one at Coporaque, but for some reason, the towns never grew and the route faded from outside memory.

Colca Canyon is a canyon of the Colca River, in the Andes mountain range, in southern Peru. It is more than twice as deep as the Grand Canyon in the United States, but is not as steep. The local people still maintain ancestral traditions and continue to cultivate the pre-Inca stepped terraces.

Declared the deepest canyon in the world by the Guinness Book of Records in 1984, it's twice as deep as the Grand Canyon in Colorado and oh, let's say at least five times as interesting!

Colca Canyon can be visited any time of year, but it is most beautiful, and safer, after the rains cease. Live volcanos are nearby, and seismic activity can cause landslides or otherwise make the ground unstable. Volcan Sabancayo is more active than Ampato, which you may recall as the site where the now famous Ice Mummy was found.

The canyon is also home to a wide variety of other birds and animals. As well as condors, you can hope to see giant hummingbirds, and over 100 other types of birds. The Canyon is also home to what is possibly the cutest animal in the whole of Peru: the vicuña. Check out our Colca Canyon photo gallery to see what we mean. These beautiful animals were almost hunted into extinction for their wool - a single vicuña-wool shirt today retails at around £2000 - but luckily are now protected by law and can roam the slopes as they always have done. Apart from vicuñas there are wildcats, guanacos, tarucas and many other species which are unique to the micro-climates of the canyon.